Denise Boas Collection: 18th-century art and furnishings

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Auction catalog by auctioneer Étienne Ader of the Denise Boas Collection featuring 18th-century art and furniture. Includes watercolors, drawings, and gouaches by J.-B. MALLET and LOUIS MOREAU; old master paintings by BILCOQ, BOILLY, COSTER, DESPORTES, Mlle GERARD, and VAN HUYSUM; fine 18th-century engravings from French and English schools; Far Eastern art objects including ceramics, Coromandel lacquer screens, gold boxes, coffrets, and mounted porcelains; bronze furnishings (torchères, wall lights, girandoles, clocks, candelabra, chandeliers, statuettes); carved wooden furniture with maker's stamps; salon seating and furniture upholstered in 18th-century Aubusson tapestry; suite of four Aubusson tapestry panels; carpets. Published by Galerie Jean Charpentier, 1937, softbound. 159 lots with prices noted in margins. 72 illustrations, 36 plates. 28 x 23 cm.